Voice, Data Recorders Fail To Surface In Attack Debris

Terrorism Digest

February 24, 2002

NEW YORK -- Two bright-orange metal boxes and a third -- now bent and burned a dull brown -- sit in a tent at the Staten Island landfill where workers sort debris from the fallen World Trade Center. They're intended to help workers recognize what may be left of the voice and data recorders aboard the two hijacked jetliners that hit the twin towers Sept. 11. But the four devices have failed to turn up in the 1.25 million tons of steel, concrete and other debris.